Re: [PATCH/RFC] clone: report duplicate entries on case-insensitive filesystems

[Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>]

Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:

> I also wonder if Windows could return some other file-unique identifier
> that would work in place of an inode here. That would be pretty easy to
> swap in via an #ifdef's helper function. I'd be OK shipping without that
> and letting Windows folks fill it in later (as long as we do not do
> anything too stupid until then, like claim all of the inode==0 files are
> the same).

Yeah, but such a useful file-unique identifier would probably be
used in place of inum in their (l)stat emulation already, if exists,
no?

> PS It occurs to me that doing this naively (re-scan the entries already
>    checked out when we see a collision) ends up quadratic over the
>    number of entries in the worst case. That may not matter. You'd only
>    have a handful of collisions normally, and anybody malicious can
>    already git-bomb your checkout anyway. If we care, an alternative
>    would be to set a flag for "I saw some collisions", and then follow
>    up with a single pass putting entries into a hashmap of
>    inode->filename.

Yeah, that makes sense.